As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

The reward of suffering is experience

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.